The Augustan Reprint Society
JOSEPH HARRIS
The City Bride
(1696)
With an Introduction by
Vinton A. Dearing
Publication Number 36
Los Angeles
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
University of California
1952
GENERAL EDITORS
H. Richard Archer, Clark Memorial Library
Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan
Robert S. Kinsman, University of California, Los Angeles
John Loftis, University of California, Los Angeles
ASSISTANT EDITOR
W. Earl Britton, University of Michigan
ADVISORY EDITORS
Emmett L. Avery, State College of Washington
Benjamin Boyce, Duke University
Louis Bredvold, University of Michigan
James L. Clifford, Columbia University
Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago
Edward Niles Hooker, University of California, Los Angeles
Louis A. Landa, Princeton University
Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota
Ernest Mossner, University of Texas
James Sutherland, University College, London
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Edna C. Davis, Clark Memorial Library
The City Bride, by Joseph Harris, is of special interest as the onlyadaptation from the canon of John Webster to have come upon the stage in theRestoration. Nahum Tate’s Injur’d Love: or, The Cruel Husband is an adaptationof The White Devil, but it was never acted and was not printed until1707. The City Bride is taken from A Cure for a Cuckold, in which WilliamRowley and perhaps Thomas Heywood collaborated with Webster. F. L. Lucas,Webster’s most recent and most scholarly editor, remarks that ...